IRC research has implications for type and placement of smoke detectors in homes

2016/12/14 by Su, Joseph Z.
#Détection de fumée #Smoke detection

paper · doi:10.4224/20327111

Abstract

Working with the Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, researchers in IRC's Fire Risk Management Program have found that using ionization-photoelectric smoke detectors is more effective than using ionization or photoelectric detectors alone in homes. These findings are the result of a series of full-scale experiments in Kemano, a deserted company town built by Alcan Smelters and Chemicals Ltd. during the 1950s and donated to British Columbia's Office of the Fire Commissioner for training and research.

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